Twins Brand Louisiana Yams Crate Label, Sam's Pride – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Twins Brand Louisiana Yams Crate Label, Sam's Pride. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Twins Brand Louisiana Yams Crate Label, Sam's Pride
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Here the subject is not a meal but a shipping label: a crate label for Louisiana yams, marketed under the brand name Twins and the Sam's Pride name. Sweet potatoes from Louisiana were a major commercial crop in the early twentieth century, and crate labels like this one were printed in bright lithographic colors to catch the eye of grocers and buyers in crowded produce markets. Such labels turned a plain wooden crate into a small piece of advertising, and today they document how growers sold regional produce to the national market. Their bold illustration and typography are a reminder of how much design went into the everyday food supply.
| Original scan | 2,500 × 2,488 px · prints to 8 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Label-162 |
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